Something which many amateur golfers have seen and experienced firsthand if they go to a top PGA tour event is seeing players bum the ball out back with a draw shape. It is a powerful feeling shot and if done correctly can give a little bit of a boost of extra distance. Now, the reasons for that it’s all about how the club is delivered into the point of impact and how that affects how the body moves throughout the golf swing.

With a draw shape, the club will move from the inside of the body, from the inside of the target line to hit the ball before moving to the outer side of the target line with the club face close to that path and yet still remaining open to the overall target. Now, although that sounds relatively simple, it does a number of different things. When hitting from the inside, the angle of attack in the club arc would generally move more upwards.

Now, as a club angle of attack and a club arc moves more upwards, you’ll hit the ball with an ascending blow. That will give a higher launch. If the club faces then close to that path, it will reduce loft slightly so you get a lower loft on the impact, the club is moving from the inside and hitting it up and that produces a low spinning, high launching draw in both line. And that is why you see such a big boost of distance when you can successfully hit that shot.

So that’s the real kind of dynamics of the shot. That is why the ball will go further. Producing that shot is something altogether differently but hopefully these videos will give you a little bit of an insight of how to do it, of how to produce that draw and give you a little bit of a boost of distance when you’re out onto the golf course.